Show DAY OF THE ladies were in a hurry to get out to see the floral parade los angeles cal may 2 the ond day of the club conyn tion emphasizes two important p ints in that the race for the presidency and the color question promise to b TO d issues the biennial has a fl sta lor L or in fact and delegates instead of being serious all the time are content to sit under the palms and swap ato aei neither candidate for the first office is making an active campaign but t looks today as if mrs den bisoi would get the presidency with mrs burd te and mrs buchwalter of ohio first ai d second vice presidents after two years of agitation the color question is quiescent of atte leaders express the belief tl at it will not come before the convention at all it is calculated at any rate t at it is likely some de legats will attempt to introduce it at the fint business session on monday the massachusetts crowd is not ag gres sive on the subject and of course the south is glad enough that it te left alone this situation has precipitated a report that mrs of boston being apprised of the color abath is sending on a representative if this is so said mrs anne D west a prominent boston delc gati massachusetts knows or has nothing to do with it th business session at simpson nu opened this morning v ith a brilliant array of women on the rostrum including mrs alice bradford wilca of chicago who his fl so conspicuously in the recent unpleasantness in the chicago woman 9 hu and whom mrs lowe has honor d by asking her to sit on the platform dir d ir ing the convention this meeting was given to import nt reports and greetings from foreia clubs mr dennison first vice president called the convention to order today with most of the deleata it there was an evident desire on aba part of the women to carry out fo program without atlay so that t e might be free to enjoy the floral the first report presented that of the biennial local board by mrs l oi evans cowlis thia was followed by the reports of the recording secretary mra fox corresponding eire tary mrs treasurer mrs van vech ten auditor mrs various committee reports and reports of foreign clubs were lead in rapid order and at 11 the convention adjourned to see the boral ra rade at tho afternoons session reports of state presidents were read miss emma A fox recording secretary general federation of clubs made the following report the board of directors has held three meeting sin the last two years belides the one held in milwaukee june 0 1000 arst of these was held in new nov 1 1900 tho second in washington D C feb 10 1001 and the third in new york in nov 1101 two meetings of the council have been held since the fifth biennial one in milwaukee on saturday inor nin june 9 1000 and the second thia in LO angeles morning the change from state chairman of correspondence to the federation secretary as a means of communication be tween the general federation and the state federations has egied one but not all of the question which aric in connection with the office the question as to whether this altice ou the state president or not is no longer raised but in the preparation for the sixth biennial the question been alced bv man v states as to whether federation the secretary ex to a vote in this entitle ft convention or not showing the of a more explicit bv law the duties and of that officer 1 the application of alie ney era of ll oston chuu a club composed lare elv of women of the negro race haa much caused so aind la so in to as tha iward tho the no that ft 0 t tho facts ln eai lua to tha the appU catlon t ra eident of the general tha federation lh lault before alt a ithie i club could when onla lie admit bv arity vote of tho board ft ma the dues were sent to the treasurer and the president of the club was in milwaukee expecting to be seated in the convention the application was presented to tho board at its meeting mee ting in milwaukee june 4 1900 and a motion was made that the club bo admitted to membership the fact that the admission of sich s ich a club would be establishing a precedent made the board unwilling t ct without carefully considering the ques tion and a motion to lay on th babl i was made and carried the d legates t at the fifth biennial understood that ha board had neither voted to admit tte 1 club nor to refuse admission bt b t the impression went abroad that the boa d had voted upon the application and id refused admission to tho club no hardship was imposed apan tha member who represented the yew era club by the failure of the b ard 10 J act upon the application as she w s entitled to a seat in the convention in another capacity at during the week of the fifth bienai 1 and the two years that vave caps d since that time the board lias many communications bearing upon tins question the ons hive for the most part been lesout ens passed by the clubs and the f dera eions expressing their views n thi question and include at least cue expression of confidence that the i dom and moderation which have directed the administration of the agne al federation in the past will cout nua to control its future these cm c m area part of the proceedings of the board and will be preserved in the archives which make i p hj history of the general federation probably the most interesting report of the morning waa that of mrs george kendrick recording secretary since the last biennial she said clubs tarco state federations and oregon and three district federations have been a total membership in the general federation of individual clubs aggregating members four district federations of members and 39 state federations composed of clubs and a total membership of the question was raised asio the number of clubs that had withdrawn and the answer was that while ten had withdrawn only talo took this action on account of the color question As treasurer mrs emma van Ved iten reported over in the treasury with the los angelea biennial expenses yet to be paid mrs george boyes chairman of the badge committee illinois led for the third time in the purchase of the national emblem california and colorado following the session then being curtailed for the flower fes cival the reports of other committees including those on membership and reciprocity pro city were ordered printed for distribution n |